It seems every programming language book ever written starts off with
a simple example on how to display the message, "Hello,
World!" Well, you won't see a "Hello, World!"
example in this book. After all, this is a style guide for the next
millennium. Instead, ours sends greetings to the World Wide Web:

Go ahead: Type in the example HTML source on a fresh word-processing
page and save it on your local disk as myfirst.html.
Make sure you select to save it in ASCII format; word processor-specific
file formats like Microsoft Word's .doc
files save hidden characters that can confuse the browser software
and disrupt your HTML document's display.

After saving myfirst.html (or
myfirst.htm if you are using a DOS- or Windows
3.11-based computer) onto disk, start up your browser, locate, and
then open the document from the program's File menu. Your screen
should look like Figure 2.1.